A yearlong investigation by Winter Park police culminated Tuesday in the arrest of four people who officers say were dealing in stolen property at a phone-repair and sales business. Police said the owner of We Fix Phones, Hunter Sanders, and three employees were dealing in stolen property. They did not release details. Sanders, 46, Adam Sanders, 27, Lisa Sanders, 45, and Michael Chaney, 23, were arrested on racketeering charges and also on charges including dealing in stolen property, operating as a secondhand dealer without a license and money laundering.

A yearlong investigation by Winter Park police culminated Tuesday in the arrest of four people who officers say were dealing in stolen property at a phone-repair and sales business. Police said the owner of We Fix Phones, Hunter Sanders, and three employees were dealing in stolen property. They did not release details. Sanders, 46, Adam Sanders, 27, Lisa Sanders, 45, and Michael Chaney, 23, were arrested on racketeering charges and also on charges including dealing in stolen property, operating as a secondhand dealer without a license and money laundering.

TAVARES - An accused drug-ring sniper should not be tried on both murder and racketeering charges at his trial next week, his defense attorney said Thursday.Danny Wert, 26, should be tried separately - if at all - for racke- teering, attorney Mark Nacke argued in a motion before Circuit Judge G. Richard Singeltary. Nacke suggested prosecutors wanted to use allegations Wert was involved in a drug gang to cast him in a ``bad light'' in the eyes of jurors.But Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross said the organized-crime charge is very relevant.

Four accused members of the Latin Kings street gang face racketeering charges in a series of crimes last summer in Osceola County, according to the Sheriff's Office. Known as the Almighty Latin King Queen Nation, the group is considered one of the country's largest criminal organizations dating back to the 1940s in Chicago. Marlen Ramos-Vasquez, William Junior Tosado, Justin Conde and Joey Hernandez were arrested last year on charges including armed robbery, burglary, grand theft, battery, threatening a law enforcement officer and dealing in stolen property, according to sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain.

GETTING TOGETHER. The Justice Department said Thursday it will confer soon with lawyers for Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. to hear arguments on why the Wall Street concern should not be indicted on racketeering charges. The meeting is an opportunity for Drexel to convince prosecutors that a racketeering indictment is unwarranted. Drexel already faces civil fraud charges.

John and Joseph Gambino, two brothers who are members of the Gambino organized crime family, have pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The brothers, along with a third defendant, pleaded guilty to participating in trafficking heroin and cocaine, murder, loan-sharking and illegal gambling from 1975 to 1992.

NEW YORK -- John Gotti, the alleged head of the Gambino crime family who is serving a life prison term for murder, has neck and mouth cancer and doctors give him less than a year to live, The New York Post reported Sunday. Gotti, 60, was sentenced to life in 1992 on murder and racketeering charges.

MCLAIN RETRIAL. While attorneys from both sides discussed the possibility of plea bargaining Wednesday in Tampa, former baseball star Denny McLain said he was $250,000 in debt and a U.S. district judge delayed his retrial on racketeering charges until the summer. McLain was accompanied in federal court by Arnold Levine, his lawyer during the spring 1985 trial that ended in McLain's conviction on racketeering charges involving loan sharking, bookmaking and cocaine dealing. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich sentenced the major leagues' most recent 30-game winner to a 23-year prison term.

A Seminole County man who has been a fugitive for a year on drug- smuggling racketeering charges has been arrested in New Hampshire.Jeffery Fekay, 44, was arrested without incident Sunday at his brother's home in Littleton, N.H. Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents had alerted police there that he might be in the area.Fekay was held at the Graston County Jail on $1 million cash bond, Babin said. He said Fekay is fighting extradition to Florida and a hearing on the matter is scheduled for Feb. 7.Fekay, a former airline mechanic, was indicted in January 1985 by a statewide grand jury in Fort Pierce on racketeering charges.

A triumphant Imelda Marcos hugged friends and supporters and kissed children as she returned to her home-in-exile to mark her late husband's birthday. The former Philippine first lady also took time Sunday to praise U.S. courts after her arrival at Honolulu International Airport. ''The system works. God bless America,'' said Marcos, cleared in June of federal racketeering charges. Marcos left Hawaii in March to face trial in a New York City federal court on fraud and racketeering charges alleging she helped steal millions of dollars from her homeland to buy art and real estate in the United States.

Prosecutors filed racketeering charges Thursday against two physicians whose Orange County pain clinics were raided in pill-mill probes last summer, and three men who managed or formerly owned the medical offices. Doctors Riyaz Jummani and Aron Rotman, who worked out of the Pro Relief Center on South Orange Avenue and Pain Relief Center off Curry Ford Road, each face racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering charges. The Orlando men who operated in the clinics in some capacity — identified in court records as Lewis Shapiro, 65, and his sons, Jarret Shapiro, 42, and Darrin Shapiro, 38 — also face money laundering charges.

SANFORD -- The idea sounded ingenious: Sell those big luxury motor coaches, like those used by NASCAR drivers and professional golfers, as time shares. Executives of a Sanford motor-coach manufacturer set up a new company and sold $8 million worth of time shares before the whole thing collapsed two years ago, leaving buyers with $7 million in losses, according to court documents. The company, Universal Luxury Coaches LLC, is now in the hands of a court-appointed receiver, who is suing the founders and managers to recover money for investors.

A monthslong criminal investigation into sex, drugs and corruption at Rachel's clubs for men could result in the arrest of the clubs' owner this week, but documents filed in a companion civil case already name names and depict a tawdry behind-the-scenes picture of the clubs. Undercover agents raided the two strip joints in July after six months of investigation. They rounded up 34 people on various charges, and documents reviewed by the Orlando Sentinel show many of them talked. In sworn statements, dancers, employees and customers told prosecutors that customers considered regulars -- who were trusted and typically spent several hundred dollars a night -- got very special treatment.

NEW YORK -- John Gotti, the alleged head of the Gambino crime family who is serving a life prison term for murder, has neck and mouth cancer and doctors give him less than a year to live, The New York Post reported Sunday. Gotti, 60, was sentenced to life in 1992 on murder and racketeering charges.

KISSIMMEE - A former Florida Christian College basketball star who once studied for the ministry will make his next public appearance in court as he faces charges of dealing in stolen cigarettes and possession of marijuana. Memphis ``Sinbad'' Keith, 38, is charged with racketeering, four counts of dealing in stolen property, two counts of directing property to be stolen, possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Keith, listed in court papers as the owner of East Cypress Market, 105-B E. Cypress St. in Kissimmee, was arrested after confidential informants helped undercover police set him up in July and August.

Two Outlaws motorcycle gang members facing racketeering charges were ordered held without bail Monday as attorneys await a decision on where their trials will be held.In Orlando, U.S. Magistrate James G. Glazebrook denied bail for Clarence Michael Smith, 52, of Lighthouse Point in Broward County, a former regional boss of the Outlaws; and Bobby Joe Mann, 38, of West Palm Beach.Smith and Mann are among 10 Outlaw members indicted in September with participating in a conspiracy involving crimes ranging from arson to murder to extortion to dealing in drugs.

District Attorney Harry Connick said he was ready to begin his re-election campaign after a federal jury acquitted him of gambling and racketeering charges. The U.S. District Court jury on Wednesday also acquitted actor Paul Burke, former assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fanning and New Orleans businessman Wilson Abraham of similar charges. Three others charged in the December indictment, accused bookmaker Walton Aucoin, and two of his employees, Steve Bertolino and William Condon, were convicted on two counts each of gambling and racketeering.

TAVARES - An accused drug-ring sniper should not be tried on both murder and racketeering charges at his trial next week, his defense attorney said Thursday.Danny Wert, 26, should be tried separately - if at all - for racke- teering, attorney Mark Nacke argued in a motion before Circuit Judge G. Richard Singeltary. Nacke suggested prosecutors wanted to use allegations Wert was involved in a drug gang to cast him in a ``bad light'' in the eyes of jurors.But Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross said the organized-crime charge is very relevant.

A friend and former co-worker of embattled Baptist leader the Rev. Henry Lyons' surrendered to Florida authorities Friday on a racketeering charge.State prosecutors allege Bernice Edwards worked with Lyons to swindle corporations doing business with the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., one of the country's largest black church organizations.Lyons, 55, president of the convention, was charged this week with racketeering and grand theft.Edwards, 41, was hired by Lyons as the convention's public relations director.